Ernst Cassirer and the critical science of Germany
Subtitle: 1899-1919
By: Gregory B. Moynahan
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780857283214
Subjects: Marburg school of philosophy; Science; Philosophy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction "reading a mute history": Ernst Cassirer, the Marburg School and the crises of modern Germany; title: The Marburg School and the politics of science in Germany; title: The twentieth-century conflict of the faculties: the Marburg School and the reform of the sciences; title: Cassirer and the Marburg School in the administrative and political context of the Kaiserreich; title: "The supreme principles of knowledge": Cassirer's transformation of the tenets of Cohen's infinitesimal method (1882) and system of philosophy (1902-1912); title: Critical science and modernity; title: Leibniz and the foundation of critical science: Leibniz's system in its scientific foundations; title: Science and history in Cassirer"s substance and function; title: Liberal democracy and law; title: Liberalism and the conflict of forms: the knowledge problem (1906-1940) and freedom and form; title: Law as science and the "coming-into-being" of natural right in Cohen, Cassirer and Kelsen; title: Conclusion critical science, the future of humanity and the riddle of an essay on man.